Enrollment
348
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH ALLEGHENY SD·NCES 421701006603
Hosack Elementary School
9275 Peebles Rd, Allison Park, PA 15101 · (412) 366-9664 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL348 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
39 students
DISTRICT 10% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
86.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.8pp since 2023
Math
92.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.8% | 92.5% |
| 2023-24 | 91.6% | 92.2% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
91.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 73% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hosack Elementary School
Hosack Elementary School's state test result (91.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosack Elementary School this school | 348 | 11.2% | 91.7% |
| Ingomar Elementary School Pittsburgh | 344 | 8.7% | 83.7% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Pittsburgh | 310 | 13.2% | 83.7% |
| Linden Elementary School Doylestown | 353 | 10.2% | 74.5% |
| Peebles Elementary School Pittsburgh | 400 | 12.0% | 81.4% |
| Unionville Elementary School Kennett Square | 372 | 15.9% | 75.1% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hosack Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 91.7% | #8 of 1,396 | #6 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 92.5% | #9 of 1,511 ▼ 3 | #6 of 141 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.8% | #15 of 1,511 ▼ 7 | #9 of 141 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 348 | #1,068 of 1,638 | #81 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #461 of 1,528 | #41 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.8% | #917 of 1,531 | #97 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.2% | #1,552 of 1,600 | #139 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.9% | #746 of 1,045 | #47 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
348
-25 (-7%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 466
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 348 | 28.8 | 12.1:1 | 11% (39) |
| 2023-24 | 332 | 26.9 | 12.4:1 | 12% (39) |
| 2022-23 | 342 | 29.6 | 11.6:1 | 13% (43) |
| 2020-21 | 373 | 26 | 14.3:1 | 12% (43) |
| 2017-18 | 378 | 23.9 | 15.8:1 | 7% (26) |
| 2015-16 | 349 | 20 | 17.4:1 | 7% (24) |
| 2010-11 | 351 | 23 | 15.3:1 | 5% (18) |
| 2000-01 | 396 | 24 | 16.5:1 | 4% (16) |
| 1990-91 | 466 | 24 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hosack Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (378 to 348); teachers up 20% (23.9 to 28.8).
About Hosack Elementary School
Hosack Elementary School is a small elementary school in Pennsylvania, with an address in Allison Park. The school enrolls 348 students, from kindergarten through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Pennsylvania) has about 443 students.
In North Allegheny SD, 11 schools enroll a combined 8,552 students.
At Hosack Elementary School, White students make up 81% of the student body. Other students are 8% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 3% Black. Hosack Elementary School has a diversity index of 34%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Hosack Elementary School operates with 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 12.1:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1. About 11% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. That rate is below the 54% average among public schools in Allegheny County.
Hosack Elementary School is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 99% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Pennsylvania schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Hosack Elementary School does better than predicted by 18.9 points. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 91.7%; the prediction is 72.8%.
Within Allegheny County, median household income is about $78,548, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Allegheny County number 277 and enroll about 141,392.
The closest public school, A W Beattie Career Center, is about 0.4 miles from Hosack Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 74.7%; Hosack Elementary School's is 91.7%, ranking 1st of 8.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 348, 7% below the 373 of 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 12.1:1, from 14.3:1.
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Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Allegheny SD
- North Allegheny High SchoolHigh · 2,711 students
- McKnight Elementary SchoolElementary · 875 students
- Marshall Middle SchoolMiddle · 847 students
- Marshall Elementary SchoolElementary · 800 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 718 students
- Carson Middle SchoolMiddle · 652 students
Other schools in Allison Park
- Hampton High SchoolHigh · 865 students
- Hampton Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 456 students
- Wyland Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- Burchfield Primary SchoolElementary · 339 students
- A W Beattie Career CenterHigh · 7 students
Nearby schools
- A W Beattie Career Center0.4 mi · 7
- Peebles Elementary School0.7 mi · 400
- McKnight Elementary School1.4 mi · 875
- Wyland Elementary School1.5 mi · 358
- Carson Middle School1.6 mi · 652
- McIntyre Elementary School1.7 mi · 594
Frequently asked questions
About Hosack Elementary SchoolHow large is Hosack Elementary School?
Hosack Elementary School enrolls approximately 348 students in grades KG-05.
Is Hosack Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hosack Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Hosack Elementary School?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at Hosack Elementary School.
How diverse is Hosack Elementary School?
Hosack Elementary School reports a student body of 81% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 8% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Hosack Elementary School in?
Hosack Elementary School is part of North Allegheny SD.
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